Julie Snow Architects
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It's an unfortunate reality that architects practicing in the great expanse between the East and West coasts all too often find themselves beyond the radar of the profession's so-called "tastemakers." And it's especially a shame in the case of Julie Snow, a Minneapolis-based architect who has, over the past decade, developed one of the most inventive practices anywhere in(...)
Julie Snow Architects
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It's an unfortunate reality that architects practicing in the great expanse between the East and West coasts all too often find themselves beyond the radar of the profession's so-called "tastemakers." And it's especially a shame in the case of Julie Snow, a Minneapolis-based architect who has, over the past decade, developed one of the most inventive practices anywhere in the United States. Snow's meticulously constructed work has the structural opacity and formal integrity that characterized Mies van der Rohe's architecture, but with a sense of humanity and a sensitivity to the environment that seems borrowed from her Midwestern progenitor, Frank Lloyd Wright. This, the first monograph on Snow's work, provides in depth documentation of 14 of her residential, institutional, corporate, and public projects, including the Koehler Residence in New Brunswick, Canada, a series of Minneapolis Light Rail Stations, the Minnesota Children's Museum, and the University of South Dakota School of Business.
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Pendant plus de 50 ans, Elsie Reford a travaillé à la création de son propre paradis à Grand-Métis. Aux abords de la rivière Mitis et devant le majestueux fleuve Saint-Laurent, le jardin créé par Elsie Reford attire des milliers de visiteurs du monde entier. Jardinière, pêcheuse, musicienne, châtelaine, philanthrope, Elsie Reford figure parmi les grandes femmes de son(...)
Les jardins de Métis : le paradis d'Elsie Reford
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Pendant plus de 50 ans, Elsie Reford a travaillé à la création de son propre paradis à Grand-Métis. Aux abords de la rivière Mitis et devant le majestueux fleuve Saint-Laurent, le jardin créé par Elsie Reford attire des milliers de visiteurs du monde entier. Jardinière, pêcheuse, musicienne, châtelaine, philanthrope, Elsie Reford figure parmi les grandes femmes de son temps. À travers ses écrits et ses lettres, Alexander Reford fait découvrir les passions de son arrière-grand-mère. Des photos inédites de Robert Wilson Reford, le mari d’Elsie Reford, accompagnent les photos d’une grande photographe de jardins et de la nature, Louise Tanguay.
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May 2005, Montréal
Architecture du Québec
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En septembre 2002, les plus grands spécialistes de l'architecture, se sont réunis à Nantes pour débattre de l'action des architectes de la première moitié du XVIIIe siècle dans les villes de la façade atlantique. Parmi les différents artistes, c'est surtout Jacques V Gabriel (1667-1742) qui se distingue tout particulièrement. Architecte parisien de renommé - Premier(...)
Jacques V Gabriel et les architectes de la façade atlantique
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En septembre 2002, les plus grands spécialistes de l'architecture, se sont réunis à Nantes pour débattre de l'action des architectes de la première moitié du XVIIIe siècle dans les villes de la façade atlantique. Parmi les différents artistes, c'est surtout Jacques V Gabriel (1667-1742) qui se distingue tout particulièrement. Architecte parisien de renommé - Premier ingénieur des Ponts et Chaussées avant de devenir premier architecte du roi - il a oeuvré aussi bien à Paris qu'en Province, et notamment dans les plus grandes villes de la façade atlantique (Bordeaux, Nantes, Rennes, Lorient).
Architecture Monographs
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Alexander examines the kinds of process that are capable of generating living structure. The unfolding of living structure in natural systems is first compared to the unfolding of buildings and town plans in traditional society, and then contrasted with present day processes. The comparison reveals deep and shocking problems which pervade the present day planning and(...)
The nature of order - an essay on the art of building and the nature of the universe. Book two : the process of creating life
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Alexander examines the kinds of process that are capable of generating living structure. The unfolding of living structure in natural systems is first compared to the unfolding of buildings and town plans in traditional society, and then contrasted with present day processes. The comparison reveals deep and shocking problems which pervade the present day planning and construction of buildings. He describes the detailed character of living process needed to generate, design, plan, and build buildings with living structure. The character of living process is contrasted, repeatedly, with the character of present-day professional process, which departs, again and again, from present process, in order to meet the necessities inherent in any truly life-creating process. Pervasive changes needed to create a world in which living process – and hence living structure – are attainable only through a transformation of society. The dynamic methods of Book 2, focusing on process, give an entirely different picture of the facts and concepts presented in Book 1.
Architectural Theory
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Alexander addresses the cosmological implications of the theory he has constructed and presented. The book begins with a critique of current cosmological thinking, and its separation from personal feeling and value. The outline of a theory in which matter itself is more spirit-like, more personal in character, is sketched. The cosmological modifications presented in Book(...)
The nature of order - an essay on the art of building and the nature of the universe. Book four : the luminous ground
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Alexander addresses the cosmological implications of the theory he has constructed and presented. The book begins with a critique of current cosmological thinking, and its separation from personal feeling and value. The outline of a theory in which matter itself is more spirit-like, more personal in character, is sketched. The cosmological modifications presented in Book 4, are needed, to supplement the definition of the personal nature of matter, design, and form, and acts as a substrate for an attempt to implement living process. The book contains a long chapter, nearly one hundred pages long — almost a book in itself — in which Alexander presents his theory of color, as one ingredient of the new cosmological picture which he puts forward. This volume draws attention to new ways of looking at consciousness, and modifies physical theory so that the human person – what we know as self, and what Alexander calls the “I” — enters in as a fundamental and necessary ingredient of all matter.
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Steven Holl
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Steven Holl is revered among architects and students for his quiet and consistent modernist buildings. His reputation among generations of students was cemented during his early tenure at Columbia University and his founding of Storefront for Art and Architecture. His Pamphlet Architecture series furthered his standing as a leader of the avant-garde. With his embrace of(...)
Steven Holl
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Steven Holl is revered among architects and students for his quiet and consistent modernist buildings. His reputation among generations of students was cemented during his early tenure at Columbia University and his founding of Storefront for Art and Architecture. His Pamphlet Architecture series furthered his standing as a leader of the avant-garde. With his embrace of computer technology, Holl smoothly transitioned from the 1980s into the digital design era of the 1990s. At the same time, his practice expanded globally and his housing projects in Japan opened to international acclaim. Recently, the ultramodern design of his Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art earned high praise for its revitalizing influence on Helsinki's city center. Remarkably, this monograph is the only book available that documents Holl's full career, covering his early houses of the 1970's to his latest designs for museums currently under construction.
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A history of writing
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From the earliest scratches on stone and bone to the languages of computers and the internet, "A History of Writing" offers a fascinating investigation into the origin and development of writing throughout the world. Commencing with the first stages of information storage, Fischer focuses on the emergence of complete writing systems in Mesopotamia in the fourth(...)
A history of writing
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From the earliest scratches on stone and bone to the languages of computers and the internet, "A History of Writing" offers a fascinating investigation into the origin and development of writing throughout the world. Commencing with the first stages of information storage, Fischer focuses on the emergence of complete writing systems in Mesopotamia in the fourth millennium BC. He documents the rise of Phoenician and its effect on the Greek alphabet, generating the many alphabetic scripts of the West. Chinese, Vietnamese, Korean and Japanese writing systems are dealt with in depth, as is writing in pre-Columbian America. Also explored are Western Europe's medieval manuscripts and the history of printing, leading to the innovations in technology and spelling rules of the 19th and 20th centuries.
Architectural Theory
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In 1999, the galecian government decided to conceive a City of Culture for Galicia, as a place for study and research, a place for drawing together the galician cultural expression and social interaction with the rest of Europe. Peter Eisenman has turned the stone of the new buildings into forms that rise organically from Santiago de Compostela, where The City of(...)
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May 2004, New York
Codex : the City of Culture of Galicia
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In 1999, the galecian government decided to conceive a City of Culture for Galicia, as a place for study and research, a place for drawing together the galician cultural expression and social interaction with the rest of Europe. Peter Eisenman has turned the stone of the new buildings into forms that rise organically from Santiago de Compostela, where The City of Culture for Galicia has been built.
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Les ponts couverts au Québec
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Les ponts de bois couverts enrichissent le paysage québécois depuis le début du XIXe siècle. Ces structures abritent une histoire captivante qui demeure pourtant largement méconnue. Très répandus sur les routes au début du XXe siècle, puisqu’on en a recensé au-delà de 1000 spécimens jusqu’ici, les ponts couverts sont devenus, au fil des ans, des monuments patrimoniaux à conserver.
Architecture du Québec
May 2004, Québec
Les ponts couverts au Québec
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Les ponts de bois couverts enrichissent le paysage québécois depuis le début du XIXe siècle. Ces structures abritent une histoire captivante qui demeure pourtant largement méconnue. Très répandus sur les routes au début du XXe siècle, puisqu’on en a recensé au-delà de 1000 spécimens jusqu’ici, les ponts couverts sont devenus, au fil des ans, des monuments patrimoniaux à conserver.
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May 2004, Québec
Architecture du Québec
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Le Vieux-Montréal, quartier historique de un kilomètre carré situé au coeur d'une métropole nord-américaine, offre un amalgame historique et patrimonial unique. De la préhistoire au XXIe siècle, ce lieu n'a cessé de se transformer, mais en conservant des témoignages éloquents de chaque époque traversée. Découvrez comment la riche architecture du quartier, mais aussi les(...)
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May 2004, Québec
L'histoire du Vieux-Montréal à travers son patrimoine
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Le Vieux-Montréal, quartier historique de un kilomètre carré situé au coeur d'une métropole nord-américaine, offre un amalgame historique et patrimonial unique. De la préhistoire au XXIe siècle, ce lieu n'a cessé de se transformer, mais en conservant des témoignages éloquents de chaque époque traversée. Découvrez comment la riche architecture du quartier, mais aussi les vestiges archéologiques, les rues, les places, les jardins, les quais et les oeuvres d'art public en plus des objets et des documents anciens nous renseignent sur l'histoire des lieux et sur ceux qui y ont vécu. Chacun des chapitres de cette aventure urbaine et patrimoniale couvre une période historique distincte et permet d'ouvrir des fenêtres multiples sur le passé du quartier, mais aussi sur celui de toute la ville et de la région, voire sur des pans entiers de l'histoire du continent. Racontée de façon vivante et dynamique, l'histoire du quartier y est aussi révélée à travers 270 illustations, dont de magnifiques photographies inédites en couleurs. Ce livre est accessible à tous les amateurs d'histoire et de patrimoine. Il passionnera ceux qui connaissent déjà le quartier historique, qui le verront sous un jour nouveau, tout autant que ceux qui y viennent pour la première fois. Des plans vous permettront de vous guider et d'aller voir sur place tout ce qui fait la richesse historique du quartier. L'histoire du Vieux-Montréal à travers son patrimoine recèle autant de plans qu'il y a d'époques à retracer, ce qui vous laisse la possibilité d'établir votre propre circuit du Vieux-Montréal.
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